DeTomaso Mailing List: July 99, Message #199

Your CRS is not that bad!

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:47:19 -0400 steve.liebenow@divatv.com (Steve
Liebenow) writes:
> All,
> 
>  With all the reading I've done, I don't recall this thread on the 
> Pantera
> being called a Mangusta....  but then CRS is an evil thing....  
> While true
> that the early Mustang prototype was called a Cougar (with pictures 
> of a
> Cougar in the front grill corral!), I would have to question the
> Pantera/Mangusta thing.
> 
> Why?
> 
> The Mangusta was released to the Turin Auto Show in 66 or 67, plenty 
> of
> years before the Pantera came about. Production didn't get started 
> until
> probably early to mid 68 (in order to call them 69 model year 
> cars...) I
> have an old Popular Mechanics from 67 that has a snippit pic' of the 
> "new"
> Mangusta in it.
> 
> Ol' Shel' did do the about face thing with DeTomaso and run off to 
> Ford who
> offered him a giant toy box to play in!!!  Who wouldn't have!  (And 
> they
> speak the same language too...) This would have been the 65ish time 
> frame,
> which would have corresponded to the subsequent release of the 
> "Snake
> Eater" at Turin....
> 
> I would think that the name Pantera was chosen for other reasons.... 
> sleek,
> growly, amble, stealthy, fast, powerful, Cougar was successful 
> already,
> Jaguar the same... but the Panther was only successful in 
> snowmobiles....
> sooooo.... 
> 
> Anyway, my $.03 on the subject.
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> 

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